cosmopolitan
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For example, common genetic variants associated with openness to experience were linked to a greater likelihood that someone would move to a more cosmopolitan neighborhood.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
He develops a reputation for aggression, seemingly fighting a war against everyone on the asphalt that spins out when he attempts to bully a cosmopolitan French driver into submission.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
In 1941, the cosmopolitan soulmates wed in Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Now the dream has turned into a nightmare for many in the cosmopolitan oasis who have given their lives and fortunes to foster "human unity in diversity" and "the transformation of consciousness".
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The king of Mutal, the biggest and most cosmopolitan city-state in the Maya world, he lived and worked in a sprawling castle a few hundred yards away from the great temples at the city’s heart.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
We’re a diverse people but still a people, not a random aggregation of cosmopolitans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Some Ukrainians said that in their youth, Russian felt like the language for urbane cosmopolitans — a notion they now reject as part of what many call “decolonization” of their culture.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
In nearly every episode the ladies gather at a restaurant to dissect whatever issues are bedeviling them that week, a device "Sex and the City" employed with enough success to make brunch and cosmopolitans fashionable.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
The song resonated not just among jazz-loving cosmopolitans, but across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2021
Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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